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Great tool - nicely done. I have two questions: 1) What is your business model? Hoping for acquisition or hoping to get traders to pay you for data? 2) How lawyered up are you? You're offering financial advice and I know the SEC has some pretty delicate regulations around what you are and are not allowed to charge people for and what the limits of your liability are. Did your legal counsel offer any specific advice in this area before you launched?



Regarding your first question, we want to offer a subscription based service both for the webapp and our API. The API access is not advertised yet, but we are planning to offer an access to our raw data in real-time to be processed by the user.


They're a canadian company, do they really have to worry about the SEC?

Regardless, this isn't personalized financial advice so they wouldn't need to worry about SEC regulation even if they were in the US.




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